Welcome to OFWIM's Presentations
from the
6th Annual Meeting of the Organization of
Fish and Wildlife Information Managers
Portland, Oregon
November 3-7, 2001

We are pleased to be able to offer the presentations made at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers (OFWIM). To view more specific information about a session or individual presentation, click on the appropriate session link.  

Please note that presentations at the OFWIM - 2001 Annual Meeting were presented in PowerPoint (Microsoft) format. We've asked participants for permission to post their presentations at the OFWIM Web site. If you use information from any of these presentations, please credit the authors accordingly.  A PDF version of the Conference Proceedings (abstracts and presenter biographies) may be found directly at:
OFWIM 2001 Annual Meeting Proceedings.

Saturday, November 3 - Session I (Morning)
     Keynote Speaker and Plenary Session

  • Tackling the Complex to Hook the Simple-Infrastructure for the Information Age (Meredith A. Lane, Academy of Natural Sciences)
  • What is a Data Standard, Why Do I Need One and Who Has One? (Stan Allen, PSMFC; Don Fago, WI Department of Natural Resources)
  • The National Integrated Land System (NILS) (Leslie Cone, Bureau of Land Management)
  • A Strategy for Sharing Corporate Information (Barb White, US Fish and Wildlife Service)
  • The Natural Resources Information Network - An Initiative of the Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership (SIFERP) (Trinna Innes, SIFERP)
Saturday, November 3 - Concurrent Session I (Afternoon)
     Data Collection and Data Entry
  • A Rosetta Stone for Fish and Wildlife Information in the Pacific Northwest (Tom O'Neil, Northwest Habitat Institute)
  • Developing Species Distribution Databases Utilizing Hand-Held GPS and WWWW (Daniel Vichitbandha, KY Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources)
  • Comparison of State and Federal Migratory Bird Harvest Surveys (Art Smith, SD Department of Game, Fish and Parks)  
  • Transcribing and Compiling Accurate Data (Bob Markve, Eric Redrud, Joe Ferrara, Dakota Data Services)
Saturday, November 3 - Concurrent Session II (Afternoon)
    
IAFWA/NBII Planning with State Agencies - Workshop
  • IAFWA/NBII Coordinator Leads Discussion with State Agencies (Jacob [Jake] Faibisch, IAFWA/NBII)
Sunday, November 4 - Concurrent Session I (Morning)
     Volunteer Datasets
  • Wildlife NatureMapping (Karen Dvornich, University of Washington)
  • Cybertracking and NatureMapping (Dan Hannaflous, Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group)
  • Online Water Data Entry and Repository for Restoration and Monitoring Sites Throughout Washington State (Karen Dvornich, University of Washington)
  • Keeping the Data Usable: Setting the Standards for Volunteer Data Collection (Jeffrey B. Trollinger, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries)
Sunday, November 4 - Concurrent Session II (Morning)
     Library/Reference
  • Dublin Core-Based Metadata Standards for Resource Discovery: A USFWS Work in Progress (Anne Post Roy, NCTC - US Fish and Wildlife Service)
  • What Makes A Library a Library and Why Does It Matter? (Lenora Oftedahl, StreamNet Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission; Gretta Siegel, Portland State University)
  • How Do You Catalog a Frog, a Matchbook Cover and Ohter Information-Rich Sources? (Lenora Oftedahl, StreamNet Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission; Gretta Siegel, Portland State University)
Sunday, November 4 - Session II (Morning)
     Data Management and Delivery
  • The Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS: Using a Distributed Data System to Manage Environmental Data Across Political Boundaries (Bridgett Hagerty, Chesapeake Research Consortium)
  • West Coast Electronic Fish Ticket and Logbook System (Carol Murray, National Marine Fisheries Service)
  • The Development and Implementation of a Database and GIS Applications for Anadromous Fish and Iimpediment Information or ... Go Fish Go! (Shelly Miller and Karen Reay, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries)
  • Hydrography Framework Clearinghouse for the Pacific Northwest (Dale Guenther, Regional Ecosystem Office, US Forest Service )
  • Data, Standards, and the Scientific Collection Permit Process in Virginia (Kathleen Quindlen and Amy Martin, VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries)
  • Applying a Consistent Definition to the Development of Statewide Salmonid Distribution Data (Jon Bowers, OR Department of Fish and Wildlife)
  • Scrambling for Data Standards in Habitat Restoration Projects (Dick O'Connor, WA Department of Fish and Wildlife)
  • Content Syndication Between State and Federal Fish and Wildlife Agency Web Sites: A Proposal on the Use of XML Resources (Kirk Keller, MO Department of Conservation)
Sunday, November 4 - Concurrent Session II (Morning)
     Metadata Training Workshop
  • Metadata Training Session - WORKSHOP (Sharon Shin, US Geological Survey/Biological Resources Division; (Bruce Wescott, SMMS Metadata Consultant)
Sunday, November 4 - Banquet Presention (Evening)
     Speaker: John 'Jack' Hill, Ph.D., NBII Coalition Chairman,
         Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)
  • National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII): History, Goals, Structure, Direction, Applications
Monday, November 5 - Closing Session (Morning)
     Data Management and Delivery
  • NBII Activities: Biological Data Profile and NBII Thematic and Regional Node Activities (Sharon Shin, US Geological Survey/Biological Resources Division)
  • Use of a Regionwide Data Exchange Formats to Organize Dissimilar Data (Bruce Schmidt, StreamNet Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission)
  • Long Term Fisheries Monitoring Using Standardized Data Sets: How Weel Is It Working? (Michael Banach, StreamNet Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission)
  • Obstacles to Standardization of Field Sampling Methodology, OR, Why Is It So Hard to Get Everyone to Do It the Same Way? (Bruch Schmidt, StreamNet Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commision)
  • Establishing and Implementing Aquatic Standards in U.S. Forest Service: Protocols, Attributes, Hydrography and Applications (Shaun P. McKinney, US Forest Service)

 


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